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You dont, you just go buy them for the child yourself if you have to. If this isn't your child you're speaking of, & it's a friend or family members child, buy the school supplies & keep them at your house until school starts. if it is your own child, you sure as hell dont need permission to buy them anything, you just go do it--stubborn person be damned.

Give him the school list and see which things he wants to cross off and take back to the school. How can he argue with that?
If it's about clothing that's something different because it's not required by school,lol.
. I never really believed that my kids needed an entire new wardrobe to begin school((not saying that's what you're doing, just talking here)) if the clothes they had were in perfectly good shape and still fit. They got minimal new school clothes. New shoes always to start year and 2 tops/2pants/shorts. I probably wasn't the coolest Mom for doing it that way but....I didn't believe in spending money we didn't have. The rest would get replaced as they outgrew etc. JMO